Crediton / Cretetone
Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
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view of font and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
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view of font
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Roger Peters, 2005
Image Source: Roger Peters [www.wissensdrang.com]
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view of font
Scene Description: in 1908
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving in Hussell (1910)
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design element - architectural - arcade - blind - round arches - 16 arches
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
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view of basin and cover
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
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view of church exterior - south view - detail
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Dodgerjammy, 2007
Image Source: digital photograph taken 27 March 2007 by Dodgerjammy [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crediton_Parish_Church] [accessed 20 December 2011]
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view of church exterior - south view
Scene Description: in 1908
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Image Source: digital image of an engraving of a February 1908 drawing by Allen T. Hussell, in Hussell (1910)
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view of church interior - nave - looking east
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Geni, 2008
Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 April 2008 by Geni [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crediton_Parish_Church] [accessed 20 December 2011]
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design element - motifs - chevron
Scene Description: on the central shaft
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
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design element - patterns - fluted
Scene Description: on the capitals of the outer colonnettes
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
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view of base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
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design element - motifs - roll moulding
Scene Description: on the capitals and base of the five shafts that make up the base
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Crediton Parish Church, 2006
Image Source: detail of a digtal photograph courtesy of Keith Barker and the Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk]
Copyright Instructions: Permission received (e-mail of 15 Januray 2007)
INFORMATION
Font ID: 06611CRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1
Font Century and Period/Style: 12th - 13th century, Medieval / composite
Church / Chapel Name: Collegiate Church of the Holy Cross and the Mother of Him who hung thereon
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, at the W end of the S aisle -- Confirmed inside the church ca. 2002
Church Patron Saint(s): The Holy Cross & St. Mary
Site Location: Devon, South West, England, United Kingdom
Directions to Site: Located 13 km NW of Exeter
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Exeter
Historical Region: Hundred of Crediton [in Domesday]
Additional Comments: composite font: the basin appears Norman -- altered font: the incisions in the arches of the basin are probably later, as is the whole of the base
Font Notes:
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There is an entry for Crediton [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [https://opendomesday.org/place/SS8300/crediton/] [accessed 12 February 2023]; it mentions neither cleric nor church in it. Listed in Cox & Harvey (1907) as having a baptismal font of the Norman period [NB: a typographical error in C&H has transposed the names as "Crediton Bishop" and "Cheriton", instead of the actual ones Cheriton Bishop and Crediton]. Noted and illustrated in Stabb (1908): "The font is Norman [...], a square top on a thick central shaft with smaller shafts at the corners, the carved oak cover was given by the Dart family in 1908." Noted and illustrated in Hussell (1910): "The basin of the font is [...] without doubt much older than this part of the tower [i.e., Transitional Norman]. It may be the basin of an olf Saxon font, used in the first or Saxon church at Crediton, for the design is much too simple and too lightly sunk for Norman work. Each side measures 2 feet by 4 inches at the top, the depth being one foot, and the material appears to be a fine grained grey granite--probably from Dartmoor. The stem and pillars are modern stone ones." Described in Clarke (1922): "The handsome marble bowl bearing round-topped arches is mounted on quasi-Romanesque pillars; the corner shafts with fluted capitals, the central shaft adorned with chevrons. A published postcard of this font describes it as Saxon!" [cf. supra]. Noted in Pevsner (1952): "Norman, of table-top type." The Crediton Parish web site [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk] dates the font to ca. 1150; "its elaborate cover is by Caroe, and was presented in 1905." Noted in Leach (1975) as a font made of Purbeck marble: "bowl with chevron patterns within panels; the supports are modern" [source given: Pevsner's South Devon, 1952].
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Dr. Roger Peters, of www.wissensdrang.com, for his permission to use the transcription of and images from Stabb (1908); we are also grateful to Keith Barker and Crediton Parish Church [www.creditonparishchurch.org.uk] for the photographs of this font.
COORDINATES
UTM: 30U 454023 5626635
Latitude & Longitude (Decimal): 50.789639, -3.652281
Latitude & Longitude (DMS): 50° 47′ 22.7″ N, 3° 39′ 8.21″ W
MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS
Material: stone, limestone (Purbeck marble) / granite?
Font Shape: square, mounted
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: square
Basin Depth: 30 cm*
Trapezoidal Basin: 70 x 70 cm*
Notes on Measurements: * [in ft/in in Hussell (1910)]
LID INFORMATION
Date: 1908 / Modern
Material: wood, oak
Apparatus: no
Notes: A gift of the Dart family, 1908
REFERENCES
- Clarke, Kate M., "The baptismal fonts of Devon -- Part IX", 54, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, 1922, pp. 216-223; p. 221
- Cox, John Charles, English Church Furniture, New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1907, p. 196
- Hussell, Allen T., North Devon Churches: Studies of some of the ancient buildings, Barnstaple: Printed at the 'Herald' Press, 1910, p. 73-74
- Leach, Rosemary, A Investigation into the use of Purbeck Marble in Medieval England, Hartlepool: E.W. Harrisons & Sons, 1975, p. 71
- Pevsner, Nikolaus, South Devon, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1952, p. 95
- Stabb, John, Some old Devon churches, their roods, pulpits, fonts, etc., London: Simkin, [et al.], 1908-1916, p. 73 and pl. 73d